Craziest gun ever!!!

With today's gun market flooded with all types of new and wacky super duper wonder weapons for the American people it reminds me of reading in the history books of all the wacky and not so good firearms that were made in the late 19th and early 20th century. I would like to know what your choice of the most outrageous guns that you come across? Something that you remember you came across at the gun show or in the military perhaps? I remember seeing those Glock knife bayonet things.. Does any one remember those?? What have you seen?? Thanks friends!

I've actually seen a "punt gun", that long percussion gun in the third picture. The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries used to have one in the lobby of their old building on West Broad Street in Richmond.

They were mounted in a boat, sort of like a cannon. A bag of leaves, cloth, whatever was placed between the gun and the transom of the boat to absorb the recoil. The gun was then loaded with black powder and shot (or whatever was handy according to legend). Then the boat was paddled out onto the river or bay, at night where the gun was aimed by aiming the boat at the rafts of ducks/geese on the water. After the gun was fired, they picked up the ducks, hopefully a BUNCH of them, went home, packed them in barrels and shipped them off to the city, by boat and by train, where they turned up in the markets and restaurants by morning. (That of course is assuming the recoil of the gun didn't knock the transom out of the boat creating a lot more excitement.)

My grandfather told a lot of stories about market gunning, although he never claimed to have actually done it. Ummmm

And my father seemed to know a lot about bootlegging, although he never claimed to have actually BEEN a bootlegger.

dandyrandy said:

With today's gun market flooded with all types of new and wacky super duper wonder weapons for the American people it reminds me of reading in the history books of all the wacky and not so good firearms that were made in the late 19th and early 20th century. I would like to know what your choice of the most outrageous guns that you come across? Something that you remember you came across at the gun show or in the military perhaps? I remember seeing those Glock knife bayonet things.. Does any one remember those?? What have you seen?? Thanks friends!

Click to expand...

The first two pictures are obviously photoshopped. The punt gun in the middle photo is real. The fourth photo looks like someone glued together a bunch of PVC pipe fittings and painted it black. The last picture is from the movie-in-a-movie "Planet Terror", a segment of "Grindhouse" by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, and therefore of course fictional.

Tom K said:

The first two pictures are obviously photoshopped. The punt gun in the middle photo is real. The fourth photo looks like someone glued together a bunch of PVC pipe fittings and painted it black. The last picture is from the movie-in-a-movie "Planet Terror", a segment of "Grindhouse" by Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino, and therefore of course fictional.

Click to expand...

Yeah buddy! I want that cod piece revolver! Would that be considered conceal carry or open carry? lol

What about this wackadoo weapon? One of my favorites!

There are plenty of crazy guns out there. Some are only considered crazy because people simply weren't ready for their advanced design. Here are two of my favorites:

The Browning Recoilless shotgun:

Browning claimed that it reduced felt recoil by 70%. They were right. I owned one for a while and it really had a light recoil impulse, but was very barrel heavy. It never caught on.

The Ljutic Space Gun:

Al Ljutic was a rifle builder. A buddy invited him to go shoot Trap, but Al didn't have a shogtun; so he built one. The Ljutic Space Gun was born.

This gun was far ahead of its time. Al understood the value of having the recoil go straight into the shoulder rather than at an angle like most shotguns or rifles have. As you can see, the straight design brings the recoil straight into the shoulder. This helps reduce felt recoil and reduce muzzle rise which makes for easier follow through.

Instead of a traditional blade or stick trigger, it has a button. This is more comfortable to use. The pistol grip has the shooter keep their shooting hand more vertical which makes for more natural pointing. The bolt action made for a very simple mechanism which was super reliable.

Alas, the looks were something most shooters couldn't get past. The gun didn't sell well and was discontinued a long time ago. However, for the right money, Ljutic might still build you one today if you really wanted it.

Rastoff said:

There are plenty of crazy guns out there. Some are only considered crazy because people simply weren't ready for their advanced design. Here are two of my favorites:

The Browning Recoilless shotgun:

Browning claimed that it reduced felt recoil by 70%. They were right. I owned one for a while and it really had a light recoil impulse, but was very barrel heavy. It never caught on.

The Ljutic Space Gun:

Al Ljutic was a rifle builder. A buddy invited him to go shoot Trap, but Al didn't have a shogtun; so he built one. The Ljutic Space Gun was born.

This gun was far ahead of its time. Al understood the value of having the recoil go straight into the shoulder rather than at an angle like most shotguns or rifles have. As you can see, the straight design brings the recoil straight into the shoulder. This helps reduce felt recoil and reduce muzzle rise which makes for easier follow through.

Instead of a traditional blade or stick trigger, it has a button. This is more comfortable to use. The pistol grip has the shooter keep their shooting hand more vertical which makes for more natural pointing. The bolt action made for a very simple mechanism which was super reliable.

Alas, the looks were something most shooters couldn't get past. The gun didn't sell well and was discontinued a long time ago. However, for the right money, Ljutic might still build you one today if you really wanted it.

Click to expand...

Wow that is crazy!

The Ljutic Space Gun:

Al Ljutic was a rifle builder. A buddy invited him to go shoot Trap, but Al didn't have a shogtun; so he built one. The Ljutic Space Gun was born.

This gun was far ahead of its time. Al understood the value of having the recoil go straight into the shoulder rather than at an angle like most shotguns or rifles have. As you can see, the straight design brings the recoil straight into the shoulder. This helps reduce felt recoil and reduce muzzle rise which makes for easier follow through.

Instead of a traditional blade or stick trigger, it has a button. This is more comfortable to use. The pistol grip has the shooter keep their shooting hand more vertical which makes for more natural pointing. The bolt action made for a very simple mechanism which was super reliable.

Alas, the looks were something most shooters couldn't get past. The gun didn't sell well and was discontinued a long time ago. However, for the right money, Ljutic might still build you one today if you really wanted it.[/QUOTE]

I have owned a half a dozen Space Guns over the years and they are great guns. What makes them recoil so little is the thrust hammer between the action and the buttstock. The Thrust hammer sits at the end of a huge spring that is placed in the stock.
About 250 of these were built and they are still very popular. They were replaced by the Ljutic Selka that is a break open gun using the same thrust hammer recoil system. The Selka maintained the same basic style as the Space gun but was easier to load and unload. At $20,000.00 the Selka was only manufactured for a few years.

The Selka /Space gun thrust hammer was re-engineered and was then used in the Dyno-Kick, a conventional looking trap gun that was produced in fairly large numbers. The Dyno-Kick morphed into the Dyno-Kick Supreme and finally into the Centennial Pro.

Weirdest firearm I've ever held in my hands personally was a Mars pistol built in the UK circa 1900. A friend of mine owned one in .45 Mars Long about 15 years ago!

GlockFan said:

Weirdest firearm I've ever held in my hands personally was a Mars pistol built in the UK circa 1900. A friend of mine owned one in .45 Mars Long about 15 years ago!

Click to expand...

Yeah that thing is pretty crazy